The SIMSToolbox is a response to scant inventory of imaging tools oriented towards Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS) imaging. The current version of SIMSToolbox allows the opening and visualization of SIMS images, the extraction of SIMS acquisition data and export to the universal xml format. Several processing algorithms have been implemented (simple ratio and HSI) as well as batch conversion. A montage function yields an overview panel. 3D SIMS images are supported. The toolbox requires the SIMSReaderImageIOPlugin, an ImageIO codec I developed to open Cameca images using Java.

The SIMS_Toolbox and the SIMSReaderImageIOPlugin have been poster-presented at the first ImageJ User and developer conference the 18th and 19th of May 2006 in Luxemburg.

Copy SIMSReaderIIOPlugin.jar into your classpath (a way would be to copy the file to your Java Runtime Engine's lib/ext directory) OR start ImageJ with a modified classpath (java -cp path_to_SIMSReaderIIOPlugin -jar ij.jar)

Restart ImageJ. The plugin can be accessed through the ImageJ plugins menu. HandleExtraFileType does not support Cameca images yet, I first wanted to wait until the loading API of the toolbox has stabilized a bit.

(C) 2006 Patrick Pirrotte. The SIMS_Toolbox is subject to Copyright and the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
As to date is only provided as binary. I plan on releasing the source code and put it under GPL v2 as soon as I've cleaned up some of my mess.